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General Board / Re: Specifying the child diagram in a composite el

« on: September 04, 2008, 05:16:56 pm »

Thanks for the feedback Roy.

Best regards,
George

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General Board / Re: Specifying the child diagram in a composite el

« on: September 04, 2008, 03:18:10 pm »

Thanks Roy. That worked for me.

Regarding your comment about the "not recommended use of this modelling with activity diagrams and composite elements", are you referring to:-
1) The practice of nesting activity diagrams in composite activity elements or
2) Linking a common child diagram to more than one parent activity element.

1f 1), what is the best practice method of modelling very large and complex logic (whilst keeping the model within a printable page span) if not using nesting?

If 2), can you please suggest a more acceptable approach?

Thank you.

Best regards,
George

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General Board / Specifying the child diagram in a composite elemnt

« on: September 04, 2008, 10:58:08 am »

Hi
Can anybody advise if there is a way to specify an existing diagram to be the child diagram in a composite element?

I am using activity diagrams where more than one activity is set as a composite element. When I drill down to a particular composite activity (structured activity) I have modelled a child activity diagram.
However, I also have another strucutured acvtivity in the parent activity diagram where the same model is required as its child.

Is there a way of having more than one structured activity (composite) drilling-down to a common activity diagram? (ie instead of having to re-model the same logic multiple times)? Thanks.

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Uml Process / Re: nested diagrams in sequence diagrams

« on: August 18, 2015, 09:41:38 pm »

Hi qwerty,
Thanks for replying to my query. My problem is that I want to link a lifeline to the diagram gate with a message but the tool will not allow the message from the lifeline to join onto the diagram gate. It seems that this is what the following diagram is doing but I cannot make Enterprise Architect create this message and show the lifeline linking to the diagram gate with a pointed arrow.


Image source:  http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.0/standard_uml_models/diagramgate.html


Best regards,
George

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Uml Process / Re: nested diagrams in sequence diagrams

« on: August 18, 2015, 12:25:25 pm »

Hi,

I’m also trying to model a sequence diagram that links to a “sub-sequence-diagram” using a reference fragment – to achieve something like the model in the EA help…

(Image source: http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.0/standard_uml_models/diagramgate.html)

•      I’ve created a separate sequence diagram that will serve as the sub-diagram.
•      I drop the sub-diagram (…as Interaction Occurrence) into the main diagram and it shows the diagram as a fragment.
•      However, I want to create a message from a lifeline of the main diagram to the reference fragment and it does not create.
•      I have tried to create a diagram gate in the diagram as well. However, I cannot create a message from a lifeline to the diagram gate either.

I can’t find any documentation that shows the procedure of how to model this, so can you please advise me on how to achieve this? Thanks.